BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Edgar H. and Lillye Mae VaughnLectureship in Medical Philosophy and MoralityA Pathological StateGabriel Winant\, PhDAssistant ProfessorDe partment of HistoryThe University of Chicago \;Thursday\, May 11\, 202 312:00pm - 1:00pmRegister in advance for this webinar: HEREAfter registeri ng\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about jo ining the webinar."A Pathological State&rdquo\; engages the politics of pu blic health during the years between 1910 and 1940. It argues that the con trol of disease offered a powerful and early medium in which the American state could partially see and regulate social class. While there really ex isted what I describe as a distinctive &ldquo\;proletarian disease environ ment\,&rdquo\; it was a highly gradated\, blurry\, and ambient phenomenon: to distinguish between sick and well in this environment was not at all s traightforward\, and many individuals lived on both sides of this line. Ne vertheless\, the control of disease in general&mdash\;and syphilis and tub erculosis most importantly&mdash\;became important and politically fraught mechanisms through which employers and ultimately government drew and rei nforced the sick-well distinction\, as a way of stabilizing labor supply a nd indeed class relations overall. State capacity expanded\, particularly in the late 1930s\, to sustain this distinction\, which rested\, criticall y\, upon behavioral questions more than any other. Working-class economic well-being thus became increasingly linked to social compliance and confor mity on the behavioral questions surrounding these diseases&mdash\;while\, correspondingly\, physical pathology became the correlates of social path ology and exclusion. DTEND:20230511T180000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T111702Z DTSTART:20230511T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Pathological State UID:RFCALITEM638472034220472674 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Gabriel Winant\, PhD
Assistant
Professor
Department of History
The University of Chicago
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"A Pathological State&rdquo\; engages the poli tics of public health during the years between 1910 and 1940. It argues th at the control of disease offered a powerful and early medium in which the American state could partially see and regulate social class. While there really existed what I describe as a distinctive &ldquo\;proletarian disea se environment\,&rdquo\; it was a highly gradated\, blurry\, and ambient p henomenon: to distinguish between sick and well in this environment was no t at all straightforward\, and many individuals lived on both sides of thi s line. Nevertheless\, the control of disease in general&mdash\;and syphil is and tuberculosis most importantly&mdash\;became important and political ly fraught mechanisms through which employers and ultimately government dr ew and reinforced the sick-well distinction\, as a way of stabilizing labo r supply and indeed class relations overall. State capacity expanded\, par ticularly in the late 1930s\, to sustain this distinction\, which rested\, critically\, upon behavioral questions more than any other. Working-class economic well-being thus became increasingly linked to social compliance and conformity on the behavioral questions surrounding these diseases&mdas h\;while\, correspondingly\, physical pathology became the correlates of s ocial pathology and exclusion.